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Excellent, Bob! >On Sep 3, 2008, at 1:58 AM, K D Patten wrote: > >>always go for >>balance........ >> >>http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/offset_calc.html >> >>http://www.junkscience.com/ > > >Ahh...That is associated with Fox News -- the fair and balanced >crowd, the let us over-consume because it is our tradition and >patriotic duty group, the *regulation is bad* because it interferes >with our ability to rape and pillage the planet network. > >I've always disliked the *warming* issue because it is too easy for >people to dither ( geologic time scales etc.) and ignore the fact of >the excessive impact of our species on all ecological functions -- >CO2 is just one of many, many forms of pollution we spew into the >world. >(Recent data links sunscreen lotion use to coral reef devastation.) >Fertilizer fun-off, dead zones in the ocean, over-fishing, massive >deforestation etc. etc.... >And of course over-population: way too much pressure on delicate and >sensitive ecological systems. > >Why is it that conservatives (Fox News) don't want to conserve >anything (except maybe archaic social taboos)? Why is the Right >nearly always wrong? >I think there has been within the last century the emergence of a >new species: Obliviates. >These are people who don't care about the future, don't care about >the effect of their actions and lifestyle on the world and use >denial to support their delusions. >Fox News is the obliviate network. > >A simple thing to do to help: stop eating beef, stop supporting the >beef cattle industry. > >To decrease my rant footprint, let me just say: > >whenever possible, live more gently and intelligently. > >regards > >BobC -- ... http://www.zmix.net